The Swan & the Jackal Quotes

“Because love is the greatest scam of all time. And because as much as I fucking love you, I hate you for inflicting it upon me!”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“that treacherous little black heart that sits behind my ribs, as always when I think of her, begins to beat to a slow and ominous rhythm, betraying me so cruelly that I wish I could rip it from my chest and be free of it forever.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan and the Jackal

“The past has shaped me, molded me into a monster. A monster with a persecuted heart and a dead soul.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan and the Jackal

“The pain of being near her and knowing that I can’t give in to my feelings for her, is the worst kind of pain I’ve ever felt.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“My beautiful swan. My savior and my undoing.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“[...]after spending so long with someone [...] they eventually begin to see through all of the things you think you're hiding from them so well.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“The way anyone chooses to feel about someone else is their choice and their business.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“A child wasn’t born on that day. A child died on that day. His innocence. What he could have been. Who he could have been. His birth was the beginning of a very long and cruel life.
No, a child wasn’t born that day, but a killer was.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal